After years of campaigning against a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the Columbia River, Pacific NW residents successfully stopped Bradwod LNG and the Palomar Pipeline through the Mt. Hood Forest. Now, we are being faced with another threat: LNG export.

With a proposed LNG terminal, and a connected set of pipelines that include crossing the Columbia River into Oregon at Columbia City, the Oregon LNG company would dramatically impact our rivers, streams, wetlands, farms, forests, and atmosphere with a highly polluting LNG export proposal. Oregon LNG is working with the Williams Pipeline Company, which seeks to feed the Oregon LNG terminal with natural gas by building over 140 miles of new pipelines through Washington, a project called the “Washington Expansion Project.”

The Oregon LNG and Williams Washington Expansion projects are moving forward fast: public hearings with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) are scheduled to begin on Oct. 15th in Clatsop, Columbia, and Cowlitz counties. Written public comments to FERC are due on November 8th.

The fight against Bradwood LNG was a success not only because the company shelved the project: it also created strong partnerships between Portland, Astoria and the towns in between.

To win round II we must revitalize this network of LNG activists from Portland to the Pacific!

A new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute on a controversial fracked gas-to-methanol refinery proposed in Washington state confirms McKibben’s assertion: the Kalama methanol refinery will not help us achieve a low-carbon future or meet the goals in the Paris Climate Accords. According to the report, approving the Kalama methanol refinery “would not appear to be consistent with globally agreed climate goals of keeping warming at less than 2 degrees Celsius.”

Critical public comment period to convince Governor Inslee, and state and local officials, to stop the Kalama methanol refinery and the Kalama Lateral pipeline. The refinery would use more natural gas than all other industry in Washington combined. If we stop this project, we can protect our climate and river communities from decades of fracked gas pollution.